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Etymologic - The brain-twisting etymology game.
Maritim etymologi - Listor med sjötermer i flera språk från 1700- och 1800-talet, bland annat engelska, franska och tyska.
Dave Wilton's Etymology Page - Devoted to etymology of common words and slang phrases.
Businessballs.com - Etymology of Clichés, Expressions and Words Etymology - English language terms and expressions.
Etymologically Speaking - A list of some curious word origins.
Pandora's Word Box - Relates medical terminology to the humanities, offering a weekly overview with references to classical etymology.
Language/Etymology/rule of thumb - Definitive essay on the purported "rule of thumb" law about wife-beating.
Roots of English - An etymological dictionary you can download by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University.
Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive - A query-based version of the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary by Yule and Barnell, including extensive etymology and usage. Originally published in 1903.
Online Etymology Dictionary - History and evolution of more than 30,000 words, including slang and technical terms.

False etymology - A false etymology is an assumed or postulated etymology which is incorrect from the perspective of modern scholarly work in historical linguistics.
Etymology of Edinburgh - The Etymology of Edinburgh shows that the origin of the city's name is understood to come from the Brythonic Din Eidyn (Fort of Eidyn) from the time when it was a Gododdin hillfort.Gardens of the 'Gododdin' Craig Cessford Garden History, Vol.
Family name etymology - Articles on the etymology and evolution of family names:
Etymology - Etymology is the study of the history of words - when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.
Bulgarian placename etymology - Bulgarian placename etymology is characterized by the linguistic and ethnic diversity of the Balkans through the ages and the position of the country in the centre of the region. While typical Bulgarian placenames of Slavic origin vastly dominate, toponyms which stem from Greek, Thracian, Latin and Turkish can also be encountered ...